Printing
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The long-term  home office  requires printer. One  needs to  print some
documents to be  able to use them without computer  (we both are people
who canoe  effectively read and  correct documents on  computer screen)
and sometimes also print, sign and sent them to some places.

Thus a printer is needed. We have  had the LasetJet (one of of the 1200
versions, I  think) for more than  10 years. It always  worked until it
died. There were  some issues with its  limited RAM (8 MB  or so) which
make  modern documents  almost unprintable  (by "modenr"  I mean  these
produced by Libre/OpenOffice, MS Office, documents generated by various
on-line services -  the Czech state railways ahve been  one of the most
terrible and the  most needed). In the  end I had to recycle it.
 The I got another one  but it was terribly damaged during
shipping).

So we have not printer ad home for  more than year. It was no issue for
the most of time but it have  became a problem when the COVID emergency
started. There  have been  several situation when  it was  necessary to
print some documents.

Now it is clear so these home  office periods will repeat so we decided
to got a home printer. A black and  white laser one as we know from the
past that it is just what we  need (I never had to replace the LasetJet
toner which I got with my old printer - the machine died before when it
still wasn't empty).


So  we have  got  a HP  M203dn  printer. It  wasn't  too expensive,  it
understands PCL  (4/5/6) and  the PostScript. And  it is  networked one
(there was no USB  cable bundled with printer but it  of course has the
USB).

I configured our router to accept  the printer (it uses the DHCL). Then
found  and configured  it  in  my Fedora/ppc64le.  It  started to  work
without issues. Then tried to  configure my wife's Ubuntu/amd64. It was
not necessary as the printer  was automatically detected and configured
(I only have set is as a default printer).

Then  I tried  the hardest  part: make  it available  form my  SGI IRIS
Indigo as a  PostScript printer. I opened the  GUI configuration panel,
entered the printer IP address and its desired name (I have choosen the
"LaserJet") and it started to work!


So 1991 machine can print on the modern (2019 or so) HP pronter without
any problems! That's crazy! Bravo HP!